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CASE celebrates 25th Anniversary with two-day conference April 8-9

Syracuse University’s Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering (CASE) will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a national conference on information systems on Thursday, April 8, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Friday, April 9, from 8 a.m.-noon at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center, 801 University Ave.

The CASE Center is a New York State Center of Advanced Technology (CAT) supported by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR). CASE has been a designated New York State CAT for 25 years, bringing together traditional academic strengths in research and education to promote strong university-industry interaction and generate positive economic impact across New York state and beyond. In the past 10 years alone, CASE has contributed more than $400 million to the state’s high-technology economy, and CASE projects have created many new jobs in the region.

Guest speakers at the conference include Eugene Spafford, world-renowned data security expert and executive director of Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security; former White House advisor Chuck Romine, associate director for Program Implementation at the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Information Technology Lab; Alan Willsky, director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT and founder of Alphatec Inc. (now BAE); Kumud M. Srinivasan, vice president for information technology and general manager, IT Core Systems and Engineering, Intel Corp.; Greg Kovacs, director, Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University; Barry Goldman, biotechnology prospecting lead at Monsanto Co. and an international expert in bioinformatics and genomic analysis; and Zino Chair, vice president of marketing and co-founder of Cortina Systems.